Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csa...@proxmox.com> --- qm.adoc | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc index fdb2552..9af2eb0 100644 --- a/qm.adoc +++ b/qm.adoc @@ -31,6 +31,22 @@ create and destroy virtual machines, and control execution parameters in the associated config file. It is also possible to create and delete virtual disks. +Requirements +------------ + +To use KVM with enabled hardware virtualization, your hardware has +to support virtualization extensions. (Intel VT-x for Intel Processors, +and AMD-V for AMD Processors) + +To check if your hardware supports it, you can check the output of: +[source,bash] +egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo + +Additionally you have to enable those extensions in your BIOS/EFI. + +NOTE: You can use Qemu Virtual Machines without KVM/Hardware Virtualization, +but the performance will certainly be very low + Configuration ------------- -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
